ABOMINATION in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for ABOMINATION, such as:

1. Murder is the most abominable crime.
2. Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.
3. The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
4. The President described the killings as an abominable crime.
5. It was abominable that actual facts could reach such deformity.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABOMINATION
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abomination
 n.  hate coupled with disgust
 n.  an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In I
2  In punctuality, she was as inevitable as a clock, and as inexorable as a railroad engine; and she held in most decided contempt and abomination anything of a contrary character.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  Gurth," replied the bondsman, "sleeps in the cell on your right, as the Jew on that to your left; you serve to keep the child of circumcision separate from the abomination of his tribe.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country hotel abomination.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5  Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
6  It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch you.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT
7  As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  The worst tenement abominations of New York do not have above twenty-two persons for every ten rooms.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  He was an abominable negro, and yet believed that he did me a great deal of honour.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
10  "Something very foolish and abominable," said Martin.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
11  It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
12  There he stood, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the abominable things viewed at such close quarters.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
13  It was abominable that actual facts could reach such deformity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
14  So you are going to be perfectly contented in your abominable Rue de l'Homme Arme.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
15  You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for your wife is dead, you abominable liar.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence:
1  Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.
2  Murder is the most abominable crime.
3  The President described the killings as an abominable crime.
4  The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
5  Mary liked John until she learned he was dating Susan; then she called him an abominable young man.